Annual

Annual

Gecko Press’s Annual is a game-changer, packing dynamic, irreverent, challenging, and timeless material into a beautiful package for 9- to 12-year-olds.

Annual features a dictionary of crazy words that come in handy on car trips, a sophisticated "spot the similarity", a found poem from school newsletters, a maths-nerd's memoir full of tricky logic puzzles, comics that embrace other worlds, a very unlucky zebra, and top-class fiction that spans Christchurch Botanic Gardens in the 19th century, the loss of a brother, a Kiwi beach holiday, and a Fontanian boarding school.

This is a book for readers who are hungry for sophisticated, wide-ranging, and challenging content. It aims to revitalize the reading experience for this age group and create lifetime readers.

Table of contents

The Tailor's Tale by Renata Hopkins 4

Star Gazing by Whiti Hereaka, illustrated by Rebecca ter Borg 24

Seeds by Joanna Orwin, illustrated by Karen Atherton 54

B.O.N.E. by Gavin Mouldey 72

The Glove by Damien Wilkins, illustrated by Sarah Wilkins 106

Tingirl and the Crying Time by Barbara Else, illustrated by Kieran Rynhart 124

A Box of Birds by Kristen McDougall, illustrated by Giselle Clarkson 66